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Our Customers Can’t Afford For Us To Wait Until They Are 70% Through Their Buying Cycle!

Partners in Excellence

It’s that time of year again, there are lots of posts around the popular research that indicates, “Customers aren’t engaging sales until they are, 57, 70, 90 (depending on the research you read) through their buying cycle.” As a result, the sales professional is key in helping customer initiate the buying cycle.

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AI’s Role In Sales and Marketing

Sales and Marketing Management

AI and machine learning will play a larger role in forecasting.?One One of the first places Birnes has seen AI take root is forecasting. Companies have been using statistics for decades to assist their forecasting efforts. But often these expensive, time-consuming, efforts were led by small back office teams.

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Doing The Whole Job

Partners in Excellence

For example, as sales people, we may look at territory or account management, prospecting, managing opportunities through the buying cycle, call planning/meeting management, pipeline management/forecasting, administrative functions, time management, training/learning and so forth. How are you spending your time?

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Sales Training Insight into "IIWII"

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Training Article: "It Is What It Is" By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company The naïve enthusiasm of youth fades as we age. CFO's accept forecasts with opportunities that didn't close in previous months that they have to "massage." Are some sales issues fixable?

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Sales Training Insight into Coordinating Silos

Customer Centric Selling

Sales Training Article: Coordinating Silos By John Holland, Chief Content Officer, CustomerCentric Selling® - The Sales Training Company This article is a continuation of the IIWII articles series; read last week's article here. Take a look at the sales training workshops available to you and improve sales performance.

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Do Standardized Sales Processes Really Work Anymore?

Pointclear

Read Tony’s blog Buyerology Now for insightful commentary on the impact of changing buyer behaviors related to sales and marketing today. These sales processes and systems typically have been enclosed by three points of a triangle: sales enablement tools, sales training, and sales pipeline or forecasting tools.

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Build A Sales Process in Eight Easy Steps

The Digital Sales Institute

An effective sales process helps you track your opportunities, create a common language around the steps of the sale plus make accurate forecasts. Your Ideal Prospect To build a sales process, companies need to create a buyer persona that highlights demographic, behavior and interest-related information about your ideal prospect.